Every sweet life flowers golden
mixing old colors in with the new
Creating a wonderful child each time
of a mixed ever changing hue

My life has been both heartache
along by spirits of love in rain
Tossed up around and foundered
with the dreams I cannot attain

As I recall the lost soft beauty
of aching spirits in still delight
I looked to God's sweet Heaven
with thoughts that stir the night

For life's time waits on none of us
it masters fate with earnest callous
Caring for none in favored mercy
helping not whom it shows malice

But I shall have known wisdom
with his brother mighty pain
As my friends they so haunt me
with joys I'll never know again

I walked the earth so emboldened
in my brazen younger days
That I missed chances so golden
for the poor error of my ways


Tate

Original version of the poem with music and pictures
http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/aristate/551373/